The Alma School District was established formally in July 1891, in what is now the Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes, although classes had begun the previous year. The name of the district was apparently selected by a student in the first class. A wood frame schoolhouse built at SE34-4-15W was used until 1905 when it was replaced by a one room brick structure, complete with full basement and oil-fueled furnace. The school closed in January 1961 and its remaining students went to Belmont Consolidated School No. 441.

The former schoolhouse still stood at the time of a 2011 site visit but has extensive structural deterioration, especially of its eastern wall. A wooden stud wall inside the school was built in an attempt to stabilize the structure. A monument stands next to the former school.

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